Category: Mitch

Criminally overlooked on its initial release, Jonathan Demme’s spirited yuppie nightmare gem features early turns from Melanie Griffith and Jeff Daniels, and also features Ray Liotta in his screen debut. Will Gordy & Cross be wild about it..?

Mitch invites Gordy & Cross to experience some old school Hollywood class in the shape of George Cukor’s timeless tale of celebrity culture, ‘art vs money’ and the search for true love, as Cary Grant ‘s C.K. Dexter Haven crashes the wedding of his ex-wife Tracy Lord (Katharine Hepburn).

As so many of John Carpenter’s movies were ineligible for inclusion we thought we’d just throw out the rule book and talk about all of them instead. This week we manage to get from the beginning of his career all the way up to Escape From New York.

Adapted from Poet Laureate Ted Hughes’ book, The Iron Man, and directed by Brad Bird, this week’s movie never really found the audience it deserved on initial release. Mitch loves it to bits, but what will Gordy and Cross make of it?

It’s that time of year when every movie studio is vying for the attention of a multitude of prestigious awards, or burying that tent-pole action extravaganza that didn’t quite work out as planned. As movie fans we’re fairly swamped with choices, so this week we discuss nine of those that have been on offer over the last month.

Evidence for the prosecution in the case of Mitch versus Christopher Nolan’s Excruciating Exposition-filled Dialogue. Why cast the delightful Ellen Page if she’s only there for the benefit of the members of the audience glued to their phones? It’s madness I tell you!